10 Wrestlers Who Have Gone As Far As They Will Go In WWE
1. Kevin Owens
The very make-up of the WWE roster lends itself to irrelevance.
There's no real tier to it any more, not since the myopic focus on John Cena rendered everybody else a notch below him. A notch below him they remain within a bloated system that demands so much content the varnish is removed within mere months. A star debuts, to reasonable fanfare, having been promoted from NXT. That star receives a push. That star is then bandied about the TV show with no long-term focus, his integrity shifting in symmetry with the storylines. Very quickly, they become faces in the crowd.
Kevin Owens is one such face, and it's a shame. His range as a performer is impressive, but he shouldn't have to play a psychopath, a chickensh*t, a sycophant, a jokester, a backstage schemer. These dissonant traits add up to a baffling whole impossible to take seriously. Owens mugged throughout his reign with the Universal Championship, perhaps too amused by the wonderful chemistry he shared with Chris Jericho. That was his turn, and that turn is over.
Owen operates most effectively when at his sinister, passive aggressive best. In that interview with Michael Cole, he is a terrifying proposition; the sociopath configured to disagree with everything that is said to him, but revels in the discomfort that comes with pressing people to disagree all the more. He was WWE's Joe Pesci; a figure awkward and dreadful to be around. Now, he stands on a ladder and shouts when he is interrupted.
A face turn and a confrontation with Universal Champion Brock Lesnar is hardly on the cards.